States of emergency: cultures of revolt in Italy from 1968 to 1978 - Robert Lumley

Students demonstrate in Milan, 1968
Students demonstrate in Milan, 1968

The complete text of the definitive book on the mass social movements in Italy in the 1960s and 70s in which author Robert Lumley traces their development, growth then recuperation and decline. Highly recommended.

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Submitted by Steven. on January 7, 2012

If you enjoy this book, please buy it here.

OCRed for libcom.org by Linda Towlson.

The online text, epub, mobi and clean PDF versions are complete with the exception of footnotes and a few images. All footnotes and images are available, however in the scanned PDF version. epub & mobi versions produced by Luxury Communism.

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Steven.

14 years 3 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on February 26, 2010

bump, because I just added four more chapters

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February 26, 2010

Nate

13 years 12 months ago

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Submitted by Nate on June 7, 2010

Thanks very much for this, this is a good book. How many chapters are left to go? or is this all of them?

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June 7, 2010

Steven.

13 years 12 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on June 7, 2010

there are about 20 something chapters total, so a lot still left to go! it is a very sizeable book... but yes it is great, it is basically the most definitive book on the socia movements in Italy in those years, but unfortunately hard copies of the book are very difficult to come by and extremely expensive, so it will be great when we get it all online.

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June 7, 2010

Nate

13 years 12 months ago

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Submitted by Nate on June 8, 2010

Well, thanks again for putting this up here. In case anyone hasn't seen it there's a new book out on some of this, I've only had time to read bits of it - http://www.moreworklesspay.com/

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June 8, 2010

Izzy

13 years 3 months ago

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Submitted by Izzy on February 25, 2011

Thanks for putting this up on the website. If you have the time to put some more of the book up on the website that would be amazing!

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February 25, 2011

Steven.

13 years 3 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on February 25, 2011

Cheers, we will get to it as soon as we can!

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February 25, 2011

flaneur

12 years 5 months ago

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Submitted by flaneur on December 25, 2011

Is this the whole thing now?

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December 25, 2011

Steven.

12 years 5 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on January 6, 2012

flaneur

Is this the whole thing now?

just a few more chapters (there are about 22 or 23 total) which we hope to have up within the next couple of weeks

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January 6, 2012

flaneur

12 years 5 months ago

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Submitted by flaneur on January 6, 2012

Top, cheers!

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January 6, 2012

Steven.

12 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on January 7, 2012

This full text is now complete (not including footnotes and bibliography). Many thanks again to the author, and Linda Towlson who has painstakingly OCRed this book over the last two years!

If you only read one book on the Italian movement, it should be this one

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January 7, 2012

Nate

12 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by Nate on January 8, 2012

Nice one. thanks Steven. This is a great book, and in that past it's been really hard to find.

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January 8, 2012

Steven.

10 years ago

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Submitted by Steven. on May 19, 2014

Bump, as this now has a scanned PDF version containing all images and footnotes

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May 19, 2014

Method of Freedom

1 year 5 months ago

Submitted by Method of Freedom on December 9, 2022

In the beginning of this book it displays url tag: If you enjoy this book, please buy it here.

rather than showing link

strange my comment shows the link but when I click the article I see two url tags (I use google chrome)

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December 9, 2022

Fozzie

1 year 5 months ago

Submitted by Fozzie on December 10, 2022

Good spot. The url and italics tags were the wrong way round at the end. Now fixed. :-)

Created
December 10, 2022

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